Bactrocera (Bactrocera) ochroma Drew & Romig

Drew, R. A. I. & Hancock, D. L., 2022, Biogeography, Speciation and Taxonomy within the genus Bactrocera Macquart with application to the Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) complex of fruit flies (Diptera Tephritidae: Dacinae), Zootaxa 5190 (3), pp. 333-360 : 350

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) ochroma Drew & Romig

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) ochroma Drew & Romig, 2013: 139 . Holotype in BMNH.

Common Name: Indonesian Mango Fly.

Definition: Face fulvous with a pair of medium-sized circular black spots; postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow; scutum black; two moderately broad subparallel lateral postsutural yellow vittae ending at or before ia. seta (may narrow sharply posteriorly); medial postsutural yellow vitta absent; anepisternal stripe ending midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and anterior npl. seta dorsally; scutellum yellow with a narrow black basal band; legs with femora entirely fulvous, tibiae with fuscous coloration; wing with cells bc and c colourless, microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, narrow fuscous to dark fuscous costal band confluent with R 2+3 and remaining narrow around apex of wing, a narrow very pale fuscous anal streak, supernumerary lobe of medium development; abdominal terga III-V orange-brown with a narrow transverse black band across anterior margin of tergum III but not reaching lateral margins, a narrow to medium-width medial longitudinal black band over all three terga, lateral margins of terga IIIV generally devoid of dark patterns, ceromata on tergum V orange-brown, abdominal sterna pale orange-brown.

Distribution: Indonesia (Bali, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra).

Hosts: Mango.

Attractant: Methyl eugenol.

Comments: B. ochroma is similar to B. dorsalis in the colour patterns on the thorax, abdomen and wings but differs in possessing tapering lateral postsutural yellow vittae ending before ia. seta, pale orange-brown abdominal sterna and on the mitochondrial genes COI and ND5 (see Drew & Romig, 2013).